Ahto Lobjakas

Ahto Lobjakas is one of the initiators of Charter 12 and an op-ed columnist for Postimees, Estonia's largest daily newspaper. He spent ten years as Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty's Brussels correspondent, after having studied politics and philosophy in Sweden and the UK.

Charter 12: Estonia's stab at direct democracy

After Iceland, Estonia is the second European country to engage in a radically novel democratic experiment. Against growing contempt for corrupt and out of touch political elites, Estonian civil society is betting on crowdsourced constitutional reform.

By Ahto Lobjakas

/ 29 Nov 2012